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New stadiums in Perth and Adelaide have leapfrogged the Gabba, where Australia has traditionally played the first Test of each summer and not lost since 1988.

Sports Minister Mick de Brenni this month announced the Stadiums Queensland board, which runs The Gabba and Suncorp Stadium on behalf of the government, had been sacked after it was criticised for its management and costs imposed on the state's major sporting teams.

The Liberal National Party opposition would support a deal that would see an improvement in infrastructure and possible return of the first Test, so long as it wasn't named after a politician.

"If it is recommended that the naming rights are to be flogged off to the highest bidder we need to make sure ... that every red cent gets ploughed back into the stadium," Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington said.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk was this week forced to drop a plan to name a stand at Suncorp Stadium after former Queensland treasurer Terry Mackenroth, who died this year.